Vatican

Vatican City: By practicing the corporal works of mercy like welcoming a stranger, one actually welcomes Christ in him. In as sense we are also helping the person to maintain his dignity as a human, said Pope Francis on Wednesday. “These works, in fact, make evident that Christians are not tired and lazy in waiting […] Read More →

Vatican City: Pope Francis exhorted the selected members of the Jesuit’s family to continue to lend their services to those who were mostly in need of Christ. The Pope advised them to “move forward, overcoming the impediments which the enemy of human nature puts in our way when, in serving God, we are seeking the […] Read More →

Vatican City: Interrupting others in their dialogue to forcefully immerse our opinion without fully listening ends in broken relationships. Pope Francis said on Saturday to the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “We don’t dialogue when we don’t listen well or when we tend to interrupt the other in order to prove that we are […] Read More →

America

Everything started with a fever. Ximena Gudalupe Magallon Galvez was only few weeks old then. Her parents had taken the baby child to Sahuayo in the Mexican state of Michoacan, the birth place of Saint Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio. Ximena was diagnosed with fever in September 2008. Fever became worse that even her regular […] Read More →

The St. Theresa Shrine in Juneau, Alaska was included in the list of national shrines in the United States. US bishops on her October 1 feast day had added the shrine into the list of 70 national shrines in the country. “We are pleased to have the Conference of Bishops recognize the Shrine of St. […] Read More →

The Catholic bishops of Mexico spoke against the proposal to reintroduce capital punishment in the state, in the light of the argument that respect for human life must be consistent. “We, the Catholic Bishops of New Mexico, in one voice, once again echo the teaching of the Church that life is sacred,” said the bishops […] Read More →

Europe

Vatican City: Manuel Gonzalez Garcia one day arrived in his home town in Seville and found that there was no one in front of the tabernacle in the Church. He then realized that Jesus who came to give life to the mankind was in the Eucharist and nobody was with him. We had abandoned him. […] Read More →

Vatican City: Pope Francis expressed his sorrow for the damage created by the wildfire raging on the Portuguese island of Maderia. He entrusted the victims to the intersession of Blessed Virgin Merry and offered his closeness to the suffering families. Through a letter signed by Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Pope expressed […] Read More →

Paris: In connection with the series of Islamic terror attacks that shook France since last year, the country’s bishops had offered all Masses on the Feast of the Assumption for France. The president of the French Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Georges Pontier of Marseille had noted how the August 15 Solemnity of the Assumption had always […] Read More →